However, some of the most popular fashion dolls have impossibly thin bodies, which could never be achieved or maintained in a real-life human being. Exposure to images of thin women can decrease ...

I remember making paper dolls from Sears catalogs ... I think we reinforced the models by gluing them to shirt-board (thin cardboard discarded from packaging for men’s shirts) or cardboard ...

But for all this attention to detail, it seems strange that Mattel made all the dolls rail thin. In fact, the dolls’ bodies are almost identical each another–which is the first tip-off that ...